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Drought pushed up May inflation to 3.2%

Inflation rate picked up to 3.2 percent in May from 3 percent in April, as the El Niño dry spell resulted in higher prices...

Raise buying price for palay, NFA told

A militant legislator on Saturday urged the National Food Authority to raise its buying price for palay to P20 per kilo from the present...

El Niño dry spell seen to trigger higher inflation

The El Niño dry spell is one of the risks that may trigger faster inflation rate this year, the policy-making Monetary Board of the...

Dry spell

Dodamin Bojis, owner of a fishpond in Barangay Linangkob, Kidapawan City,  feels the effect of the mild El Niño phenomenon. Initial damage to crops...

DA to launch cash for work program – Piñol

Incoming Agriculture secretary Emmanuel Piñol on Monday laid out the Duterte administration’s plans for the agriculture sector, including a cash for work program to...

Piñol seeking P30b to help El Niño victims

Incoming Agriculture secretary Emmanuel Piñol said Wednesday he will ask for P30 billion from the government to help farmers and fishers displaced by El...

39 LGUs in state of calamity

Thirty-nine local government units in the country are now under a “state of calamity” following the ill effects of the dry spell this year,...

Provincial council wants Bohol placed under state of calamity

Tagbilaran City, Bohol—Drought-triggered damage in Bohol has already reached around P313 million, prompting the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to pass a resolution declaring the province under...

Alcala tells N. Cotabato farmers: We will help you

COTABATO CITY—Department of Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala has assured farmers in North Cotabato who have been suffering the brunt of the long dry spell...

El Niño causes P5.3 billion in production losses

Production losses caused by the prolonged dry spell already reached P5.32 billion as of March 7, the Agriculture Department said Friday.  DA said that the...

Seven provinces in drought

At least seven provinces in the country will experience drought until December, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration. The weather bureau...

Mindanao dry spell causes drop in rice yield

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—Rice production in Northern Mindanao dropped by 11 percent in the third quarter of this year compared to the same period...
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